Who is the best general of all time?

[JeffersonDavis]

Robert E Lee, hands down.

 

[TeamJones]

Not Alexander the Great? He actually was successful in foreign lands.

I'm going to go with Longstreet though.

 

[coolhandluke]

douglas macarthur had operation downfall been enacted and successfully completed

 

[user098123]

Leonidas.

 

[doublexl]

dumb thread...or dumbest thread?

 

[clayborn]

OsAmA!

 

[vinnyT]

Definitely NOT Robert E. Lee

he lost without conquering anything

my vote is for Alexander the Great

 

[jimmer]

alexander even though he was homo

 

[603skier]

yeah i know. who cares? lol

 

[zepscratch]

hannibal?

 

[JamesR]

ol stonewall

 

[Santa-Cruz]

napeloian

 

[josh.]

.

 

[no_steeze_in_NY]

why the fuck would you say Robert E. Lee? try someone who conquered a decent portion of the world, like Alexander the Great or Ghengis Khan

 

[anxju]

robert e lee, says jeffersondavis. hannibal anyone? he pwned rome despite being outnumbered many times. some examples: battle of cannae, trasimene, or trebia. or howbout napolean or alexander?

 

[user098123]

Despite the atrocities he committed, hitler was a pretty good general. Shouldn't have gone after Russia, nobody learns.

 

[Inbred_Redneck]

Define best....

Best as in successfully conquering land/winning battles? or

Best as in being good to the troops and having a loyal following?

 

[RockandRollTroll]

George Patton. I'm suprised no body has mentioned him so far.

 

[SteevJee]

George is definitely sick, sucks how he died though, but i an going to have to go with Napoleon because of what he did during the French Revolution and that he conquered a crazy amount of territory.

 

[Calb3rt]

sir winston churchill

 

[sowstochd]

he wasent a good "general", amazing leader though.

 

[sowstochd]

top 4:

genghis kahn- conqured from modern day poland to vietnam pretty much. not an exaggeration

alexander the great- conquered like 1/3 of the known world in that time

napolean bonaparte- enough said

mustafa kemal ataturk- held off french, british, and australian troops. led the turkish war of independance

 

[MADmidwest]

My favorite is william the conquer, His old name was funnier tho before he conquered the anglo-saxons because it translated into "William the Bastard" so thats what I call him.

 

[skiminnesota]

how on earth can i only be the second person to say PATTON!

 

[anxju]

am i the first to say GEORGE WASHINGTON?!

 

[blindside]

THAO!

 

[user098123]

Actually I change my mind. I say Zhuge Liang, who was the author of "The Art of War."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuge_Liang

 

[Mezmerize19]

Napoleon Bonaparte. Seriously he's like my favorite guy in history ever

 

[shibby]

Too hard, sick thread though.

 

[artfullydodged]

tom wallisch?

 

[skier_boy26]

Herakleios (except for yarmuk)

and two pretty obvious

genghis khan

alexander

also a fan of saladin

 

[charmander]

john lennon man, war on warmongers eh

 

[Parker.]

christopher wallace. look him up boys and girls

 

[skierdudeguy]

ulysses S. grant.

just because im related to him.

 

[mommy]

either tupac or x-pac

 

[salomon097]

i'd probably have to say darth vader. his use of the force to control people simply puts him at the top of the list. also, he conquered most of the star wars galaxy, except for planets on the outskirts(i.e. Tatooine)

i know someone is gunna reply and say Darth Vader wasnt a general, but actually a sith lord. well actually, he was a general during the clone wars, first for the republic, then later for the empire.

 

[comeatmebro]

wow after that summary...i'm gonna say darth vader FTW!!

 

[Mezmerize19]

you know how many people have told me they are related to him? He must have been a fucking dog in his days

 

[Nicholas.]

ghengis khan crushed shit and so did alexander, and would it be fucked up to say hitler? he had a pretty solid following but he got his ass whooped in the end. but hitler was a dick, fuck him.

 

[pag]

He sucked as a general... it was the wermach generals who were the best....

and I would say Alexander The great... He was just too good on the battelfield.

In WW2 I would say the best ones are guderian and rommel...

 

[skithebert]

george got his ass handed to him repeatedly in the french and indian war

 

[raddar]

Yue Fei, general of the Song Dynasty armies in 12th century China

 

[freezed]

you sold me.

darth vader.

 

[Manlenium]

I agree with Ghengis. He conqured so much land in so little time. The warefare tactics in that era were unheard of.

 

[tjski]

meee fuckin too dude!!!!!! he is like my 8th cusin or some shit....

but i would say... George Washington becasue without him America would not be what it is today..

 

[Manlenium]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_genghis.html

He also has 16 million living realatives today. Mosytly due to the fact he was a gangbang machine.

 

[Piste.Off]

the general lee

 

[Elijah.]

General Tao (General Tao Chicken!)

 

[Scott~]

Genghis Khan, the most manly man of all time, conquers asia and has sex with 3000 women along the way~

 

[blindside]

i wrote that like 20 posts up...

 

[no_steeze]

eventhough he wasn't a general, Francis Marion the Swamp Fox was the best fighter/commander of all time